Means fob locating and guiding rail holding and locking spikes



APPLICATION HLED MAY 28, 1914.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

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JOHNJL LUNGER, OF HIGH BRIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

MEANS FOR LOCATING AND GUIDING RAIL HOLDING AND LOCKING SPIKES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application filed May 28, 1914. Serial No. 841,421.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN A. LUNGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at High Bridge, in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Locating and Guiding Rail Holding and Locking Spikes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has to do with the locking of rail holding spikes in railroad ties in an improved manner thereby to prevent them from working loose, the object of the invention being to provide improved means for locating and guiding the rail-holding spikes and their locking spikes in the rail-supporting ties, whereby the use of intersecting spikes is made practicable in a very simple and eflicient manner. 7

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of a railroad rail and an end view of a tie thereof illustrating this improved means of looking a spike in position; Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view of a rail and aside view of a spike; Fig. 3 is a top view ofthe improved means for holding and guiding the spike and its locking means; Fig. 4; is a front view thereof; Fig. 5 is a side view looking from left to right of Fig. at; and Fig. 6 is a view of the plate for holding the guiding means in position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings. j

One of the most simple and effective ways of locking a railroad spike to prevent its working loose is to drive another spike or wedge horizontally through the tie so as to h intersect and pass through a hole in therail holding spike, and while I am aware that railroad spikes have been used with holes therein, yet it has been attempted to hold these spikes in position by driving an interlocking pin into the tie at the same time the rail spike was driven down. In other words, the interlocking pin was driven along with the spike from the top of the tie and no attempt, so far as I am aware, has ever been made to lock a spike in position by means of a pin subsequently driven from'the side of a tie because ofthe' difliculty and impracticability heretofore ofso driving the interlocking spike as to properly intersect and pass through the rail holding spike, but by driven in each instance the interlocking spike into pos tion so that it will pass In the present improvement the spike 2 is provided with an elongated opening 3 whichmaybe of any suitable size as occaslonmay require. The interlocking means consists of a spike or wedge 4 driven horizontally through the tie 5 whereby the rail holding spike 2 is properly held in firm engagement with the flange '6 of the rail 7. This simple and eificient means of locking a rail spike in position is, however, not practicable in use without the provision of the means herein shown which will permit the interlocking spike to be accurately driven so as to pass through the opening in the rail holding spike. This means consists of a guide for the rail spike and of a guide for the interlocking spike combined in such manner as to fit around the tie during the driving of these spikes,-this guiding means comprising an angular member 8 consisting of a top plate 9 adapted to rest on top of the tie, and a side plate 10 adapted to engage the side of a tie. The top plate 9 is provided with a transverse slot 11 for the reception of the shank of the rail holding spike and this slot terminates in a projection or stop 12. for guiding the rear side of the spike. At each side of the slot 11 the plate 9 is provided with a knife-edge projection 13 adapted to project between the bottom of the rail flange and the tie. The side plate 10 is provided with a slot 14 and communicating therewith is a laterally extending grooved projection 15 for the reception and guiding of the interlocking spike l. For holding the guiding member 8 in proper position on a tie, a plate 16 may be used which may be held in position by suitable thumb screws or other fastening means. In use the guide 8 is placed on a tie adjacent to the rail where it is desired to drive a spike with the plate 9 on top of the tie and the plate 10 at the side thereof and closely hugging the tie, the knife edges 13 being forced under the rail so that the edges 17 of the guide plate 9 will Contact with the side edge of the rail flange. The plate 16 is then clamped on top of the tie so that one of its edges will engage the edge 18of the guide 8 and hold it in position. The spike is then driven so that it will pass through the slot 11 with its head in contact with the stop'l2. Then the interrail holding spike. I

From the foregoing, it Will be observed thatthe guide for the locking spike extends transversely to the guide for therail holding spike, so that by the present improvement is made possible the use of an interlocking spike Which may be driventhrough the side of the ties'o as to interlock the rail holding spike and prevent it from Working loose. 7

It will be tails may be more or less modified Without departing from the spiritor scope of the present improvement. I

I claim as my invention 1. Means for locating and guiding a pair of spikes while being driven into a railroad tie, one spike having an opening therein and being guided to enter from the top of the tie and theother spike'being guided to enter from the side of such tie and pass into the opening in the first spike, said means independent of and removable from said tie after the interlocking of the spikes and before both spikes have been completely driven and comprising a part for determining the position of and directing the rail-holding spike as it passes into said tie from the top thereof and a partfor determining the position of and directing the spike during a part of the driving thereof as it passes through the side of the tie and into the opening of the rail-holding spike.

A device for insuring the driving of an interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so as to project into an opening of a rail-holding spike passing into the top of such tie, said device consisting of a guide for the rail-holding spike and a guide for the interlocking spike, said first guide comprising a slotted plate having a spike guiding stop and having one or more knife edges for insertion under-the rail.

3. A device for insuring the driving of an interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so as to project into an opening of a rail-holding spike passing into the top of such tie, said device consisting of a guide for the rail-holding spike and a guide for the interlocking spike, said second guide comprising a plate having a recess and a laterally extending member having a groove in its side to guide the interlocking spike.

4:. A device for insuring the driving of an interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so as to project'into an opening of a rail-holding spike passing into the top of such tie,"'said device consisting of a guide 7 for the rail-holding spike and a guide for understood that the various deing stop and said second guide comprising a plate having a recessand a laterally extendng member having a spike-guiding groove in its side. 5. A device for insuring the driving of an interlocking spike throughthe side'of a railthe interlocking spike, said first guide coin- I prising a slotted plate having'a spike-guidroad tie so as to project into an opening of a a rail-holding spike passing into the top of such tie, said device consisting of a guide for the rail-holding spikeand a guide for the interlocl'ringspike, said first guide comprising aslotted ,plate'having a spike-guiding stop and one or more knife edges for insertion under the rail and said second guide comprising a plate having a recess and a laterally extending member having a spike gu ding groove in its side. i

6; A device for insuring the driving of an interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so as to project into an opening of a rail-holding spikepassing into the top of such tie, said device consisting of a guide for the rail-holding spike and a guide for the nterlocking spike, said first guide comprising aslotted, plate having a spike-guiding stop and oneor more knife edges for insertion under the rail and said second guide comprising a plate having a recess and a laterally extending member having a spikeguiding groove in its side, and means for holding said'guiding means against the rail.

7. A device for insuring the driving, of an interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so as to project into an opening ofarail-holding spike passing,intothe top of such tie, said device consisting of a'guide for the rail-holding spike and a guide for theinterlocking spike, said first guide comprising a slotted plate having a spike-guidng) stop and one or more knife edges for insertion under the rail and said second guide comprising a plate having a recess and a laterally extending member having a spike-guiding groove 'inits side, and means for holding said guiding means against the rail and comprising a plate.

8. A device for insuring the'driving of an I interlocking spike through the side of a railroad tie so asto project into an opening of a rail-holding-spike passing into the top of such tie, said device consisting of a guide for the rail-holding spike and a. guide for the interlocking spike, said guides extending transverselyto each other and each consisting of a slotted member, and a clamping plate for holding said guides in position. a i

9. A railroad railspike guiding means comprising'an angularly formed guiding memberadapted to extend along tWo sides of a railroad tie, each part thereof having 'means for guidingand directing ,a spike said angular guiding means is in position on a railroad tie so that one spike may be driven through the side of the tie to interlock with the rail-holding spike driven through the top of the tie, said means being removable after the interlocking 01": the spikes and before both spikes have been completely driven.

10. A railroad rail spike-guiding means comprising an angularly formed guiding member adapted to extend along two sides of the tie, one part thereof comprising a horizontal member having a slot for the reception of a rail-holding spike and a depending member having a laterally extending projection grooved in one side for the reception of an interlocking spike.

11. A railroad rail spike-guiding means comprising a horizontal plate and an upright plate, said horizontal plate having a of a rail spike and having one or more lmife edges to assist in holding the plate in position, and the other part having a slot and a laterally extending grooved projection in alinement With said slot for the reception of a spike, so that one spike may be driven to,

intersect the other.

JOHN A. LUNGER. WVitnesses:

S. G. LUNGER, A. S. LEATHERMAN.

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